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 PERSPECTIVE OF GARDENS IN COURT, SHOWING DRIVEWAYS AND GARAGES-OPERATION NO, 8 OF THE QUEENSBORO CORPORATION, BOROUGH OF QUEENS, NEW YORK CITY

Andrew J. Thomas, Architect

so that the perspective of the building ing rented. They cover 52 per cent. of cuts most of them off from sight from the lot area, and, to quote the annual

almost any point in the garden. The ex teriors, while simple indeed, have an ur usual quality—quality in scale, propo tions of windows and entrances, and sign of doors and details of ironwork, balconies, such as is usually found only in the finest kinds of architecture. In plan, the arrangement, inside shows the rooms radiating from a couple of stair wells without corridors, there being thr

to four rooms in each apartment, includ ing kitchen and loggia, which latter is a

sleeping porch. ‘The finish of the rooms is of the simples, asa detail of Mr Thomas's fine taste, I noted well-profiled 3-inch trims around door openings, like an early American farmhouse. The stair wells and entrances are of face brick Though the rooms are small, they are

larger than most rooms in this class of

housing. These buildings are almost

completed at date of writing, and are be

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report of the company, yield as great, if not a greater, return on the investment than the older plans of concentration could do. The group than a quarter of a mile from the elevated rail- road station

Of

is less

Homewood develop- more struct than before the war; con- rented so cheaply Still, it is prov and has been when com-

course, this costs mucl tments built

sequently, it cannot b

ment

as older apartments can ing financially put through in trying times peting speculators are impotent, how im-

a suc

potent will be realized when it is stated that plans for only about fifteen apart- ment houses on Manhattan Island have been filed with the New York Tenement

More than that, at the moment of writing representatives of the New York speculative real estate interests are giving interviews in the daily

Commission this year!